Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Welcome to Pichkari Holi Blog Hop by ICR Team. You can start at ICR Forum and get all the deets on the Blog Hop.

Holi is also called the Spring Festival - as it marks the arrival of spring the season of hope and joy. The gloom of the winter goes as Holi promises of bright summer days. Nature too, it seems rejoices at the arrival of Holi and wears its best clothes. Fields get filled with crops promising a good harvest to the farmers and flowers bloom colouring the surroundings and filling fragrance in the air.

For me holi is all about the delicacies my mom prepares..

Dahi Wada & Pua are a must on this day...

I am not a big fan of playing holi specially with wet colours...

but I love playing with colours... on paper.. :)

So without any further ado here is the card I prepared for this blog hop...It is inspired by a card I saw...I always wanted to make something like that...& this was the perfect occasion...

All colourful & cheerful ... Just like this festival of colours & joy...I have made few changes... I wanted the colours to have very soft edges & mixing smoothly into one another...

For the background I dropped few drops of each colour on a wet white CS, added some water & let them merge into each other...

After that I added a stamped butterfly in black & highlighted some parts with a white pen..

(I love butterflies & for me they signify happiness...)

& then I doodled the swirls with a black gel pen..

If you are here from Asha's blog then you are on the right path. If not, you can go to the ICR Forum and start from there.

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

When my client asked me to suggest some gift options for the Silver Wedding Anniversary from a son to their parents the 1st thing that came to my mind was a Scrapbook showing their journey of 25 years...

They liked the idea but they were a bit reluctant to order it as I had no photographs of the scrapbooks I made in the past...

& my own scrapbook that I had made for my hubby capturing all the moments we shared from the time our photographs were exchanged till our engagement was packed away somewhere... { I kept it at a safe place when we shifted to this new place & as always forgot that safe place... :( }

But anyways they trusted me & gave the order after I verbally explained to them what a scrapbook is...

When I was planning to make this scrapbook I was only sure of one thing...

I was going to use silver colour... but not for the background... only for the embellishments...

But I was not sure which colours I should use with silver...

After much thinking I decided to use textured white base with glimmer mist for the pearl finishing & silver die cuts... with splash of colours added with the help of rhinestones, flowers etc...

This was the perfect combination which I was looking for...

Elegant & fit for a Silver Wedding Anniversary...

So here are the photographs of the scrapbook I made...

The pearl finish of the background is not very visible in the photographs but it looks gorgeous in real life...

The photographs don't do justice to this scrapbook... But still this is the best I could manage because I completed the scrapbook only few hours before the delivery time...

There is not much to explain

All the sentiments & text are computer generated ...

& I have used lots of dies from spellbinders, cherry lynn, joy crafts & memory box...

& lots of rhinestones..

(Click on the photographs to enlarge)

Tags for both the sons to write message for their parents...

I have left spaces for 3 photographs on the last 2 pages so that they can attach the photographs of their 25th wedding anniversary celebration & complete the scrapbook..